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First encounter with a comet a global triumph ICE
The International Comet Explorer became the first spacecraft to study a comet, Giacobini Zinner, traversing its tail for 18 minutes at 13 miles per second. Scientists hailed the mission as a resounding success with rich data, noting a shock wave, high tail temperatures, and a detected magnetic field, with future flybys planned including a March 1986 pass near Halley.
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Giacobini-Zinner
Fred Scarf
TRW Inc
Redondo Beach
Calif
Scarf
NASA
Goddard Space Plight Center
Greenbelt
Edward Smith
Goddard
Space Agency
Halley’s
Smith
Robert Farquhar
Ice
Orlando
Fla
S.J. Bame
Los Alamos National Laboratory
New Mexico
Orion-Gemini
Halley
Solar System